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Public Worship and the Christian Life

Public Worship and the Christian Life

By: Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
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A podcast produced by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. Learn more about our work at https://worship.calvin.edu/

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  • Vinroy D. Brown Jr. on Black Psalmody is for Everyone

    Vinroy D. Brown Jr. on Black Psalmody is for Everyone
    Dec 2 2025

    Vinroy D. Brown Jr.—conductor, musicologist, educator, and minister of creative worship and music at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City—explores the vibrant intersection of Black sacred music and the psalms. He talks about Black composers and how they have reimagined the psalms through choral music, spirituals, and the gospel tradition for the benefit of everyone.

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    35 mins
  • John Goldingay on the Psalms as Full of Theology and Straight Talking

    John Goldingay on the Psalms as Full of Theology and Straight Talking
    Dec 2 2025
    John Goldingay, an Anglican priest and the senior professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, posits the psalms are the densest material in the entire Old Testament. They expound the nature of God as the compassionate, faithful, and committed one, but also as the one who makes demands upon us. The psalms help us talk to God, even about difficult things—and when we do, we are talking to someone who is in a position to do something about it.


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    29 mins
  • Kathleen Harmon on Becoming the Psalms

    Kathleen Harmon on Becoming the Psalms
    Dec 2 2025

    Sister Kathleen Harmon of the community of the Ohio province of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Dayton, invites us to be transformed by the psalms and experience them as the whole story God is revealing to us. As we keep praying and singing them, the psalms interpret us, and that’s when the transformation comes.

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    32 mins
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